Topics: Houston

Scope/Description This article will help you create a ZFS pool and datasets in Houston UI using the ZFS module. Prerequisites Access to Houston UI ZFS Module and Packages Installed Disk Aliasing Setup with “dmap” if using Device Alias for Disk Identifier Steps Accessing the ZFS Tab Once we’re logged into Houston, you should see a […]

Scope/Description This article will show you how to add a new VDEV to an existing ZFS Pool in Houston UI using the ZFS module. Prerequisites Access to Houston UI ZFS Module and Packages Installed Existing ZFS Pool Steps Accessing the ZFS Tab We begin by going to our ZFS tab to view our storage pool. […]

Scope/Description This article will cover creating and managing SMB shares in Houston UI. Prerequisites Access to Houston UI Cockpit File Sharing Module and Packages Installed SMB Packages Installed SMB Services Running and Enabled SMB Ports Open on Firewall (133/tcp, 445/tcp and 137/udp, 138/udp) Steps Accessing the File Sharing Tab In Houston UI, navigate to the […]

Scope/Description This article will cover creating and managing NFS shares in Houston UI Prerequisites Access to Houston UI Cockpit File Sharing Module and Packages Installed NFS Packages Installed NFS Services Running and Enabled NFS Ports Open on Firewall (111/tcp, 111/udp, 20048/tcp, 20048/udp, [2049/tcp, and 2049/udp if NFSv3]) Steps In Houston UI, navigate to the File […]

Scope/Description This article will show how to install the Houston modules released in July 2021. Prerequisites Enable 45drives package repositories Steps Rocky Linux Install the modules from dnf repository [root@rocky-45d ~]# dnf install cockpit-navigator cockpit-file-sharing cockpit-zfs-manager cockpit-benchmark Ubuntu Install the modules from apt repository root@ubuntu-45d:~# apt install cockpit-navigator cockpit-file-sharing cockpit-zfs-manager cockpit-benchmark Verification We can now […]

Scope/Description This article will cover managing Firewall in Houston UI Prerequisites Access to Houston UI Firewalld installed and configured Steps In the networking tab, we can see the firewall is currently enabled. We can turn it off completely by clicking the button next to it. Next, we can select the Edit rules and zones button […]

Scope/Description This article will show how to manage networking in Houston UI Prerequisites Access to Houston UI Network Manager installed and configured Steps In the networking tab, we can see our interfaces, and the option to create bonds, bridge, or VLANs. We can also directly select an interface to configure its settings. If we select […]

Scope/Description This guide covers how to passthrough a USB controller from your host machine to a VM on top of Houston. Prerequisites A working Ubuntu install with Houston UI A created VM through Houston UI Access to Houston UI and its CLI A CPU that supports IOMMU groups Steps Edit the host machines boot loader […]

Scope/Description This guide will run through the steps to import the AWS Data Sync KVM image into Houston to deploy for Amazon to facilitate cloud backups. Prerequisites Have a 45Drives Storinator shipped from us with our Ubuntu 20.04LTS image installed on it OR run our Ubuntu pre-config script that brings your image to parity with […]

Scope/Description This article will walk through the process of joining a Windows Active Directory through the Houston UI with Ubuntu 20.04. Prerequisites Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed Cockpit 237.1 or greater installed Samba, Winbind, and Realmd packages installed 45Drives Repository installed Steps Installing realmd Install realmd (0.16.3-3ubuntu2) from 45Drives Repository root@ubuntu-45d:~# apt install realmd Configuring realmd […]